Ron Garner & Company D had a good time at Fort Townsend a couple of weekends ago, and he sent along these photos of their adventures there…they invite everyone to this coming weekend’s Encampment at English Camp – here’s more: Members of Company D, a volunteer group of San Juan Island National Historical Park, traveled  Continue Reading

Photographer Tim Dustrude has put together a series of photos & stories called This Is Our Town about folks around the island, and I’m excited to add his work to the Update as a regular feature. Here’s the first in our series – meet Bryan & Carolyn and their Spring Street business, The Sandpebble: Sandpebble  Continue Reading

This evening is an important event – Friday Harbor is on the booksigning tour that accompanies the release of the book Death at SeaWorld.” The event is at Friday Harbor House at 5pm – here is more information from the publisher about the book & author, as well as a review by Update book reviewer  Continue Reading

Let’s take a quick look around: • Winnie and Leah have opened a new handbag and clothing shop called Momentum Handbag (Winnie’s part) and Pin Pin Apparel (Leah’s) at the old Griffin Bay Bookstore location, just down from The Toy Box. They even have an option to design your own handbag! +++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++ +++++++

I asked Update book reviewer Rainah Sandstrom to read David Kirby’s new book & see what she thought – here is her perceptive & thoughtful review of this just released book (The Update received a review copy a couple of weeks ago). Here’s more: In Death at SeaWorld, Kirby tells the spellbinding story of the  Continue Reading

Some of us are old enough to remember – sitting up into the middle of the night to watch the astronauts walk, for the first time, on the moon. Some of us can only look at the black & white pictures & hear the stories from older folks. But it was the beginning of a  Continue Reading

Let’s see what else is going on: • Georgia tells me this will be useful – drop by!  Accountant Don Cooper will be giving a talk about handling estates at the Mullis Center at 2:30pm on Thursday, July 19.  The CPA will be giving an overview of state and federal taxation upon the estate holder’s  Continue Reading

I looked at the trailer for the movie “Old Goats” above, and I think you’ll get the idea – this is going to be fun. Check it out…here’s more from Jan Bollwinkel-Smith and the theatre: Star Struck in Friday Harbor: A SJCT FUNdraiser What do you get when you combine a beautiful Northwest ocean-view property, island  Continue Reading

Friday was pretty amazing, with thunder & lightning early & late….here’s a lightning strike at Brown Island (across from the harbor from Friday Harbor) taken on Friday evening. Wow.